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France spoke her piece to the Big Three last week. What she had to say did not suit the power-thinkers of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks. But, considering General Charles de Gaulle's recent choler, the French attitude was surprisingly good-tempered-and too cogent to be ignored...
These amendments seemed to amount to a bald declaration of "no confidence" in the Big Three design for peace. French Information Minister Henri Teitgen heightened this impression when he said: "France is in favor of collective security, but does not believe the Dumbarton Oaks plan, as changed at Yalta, comes up to France's requirements. . . . France's definition of collective security is the construction of a real international democracy,with an international government with authority to decide disputes and enforce decisions. France does not think Dumbarton Oaks-Yalta meets such conditions...
...General de Gaulle did not want the Big Three to think that he would insist on wrecking Dumbarton Oaks if nothing better were offered. He apparently realized that he had gone too far in some of his recent displays of anger and defiance, took this opportunity to make graceful amends. Said a temperate, challenging statement which le Grand Charlie personally edited...
...believes that a durable peace calls for an international organization as extensive and as strong as possible, which provides for the establishment of an international authority and an international justice superior to those of the various states. She would be ready on her part to go even farther than Dumbarton Oaks and consent to greater limitation on her sovereignty in exchange for a more effective international organization than that proposed by this plan. But France admits that in the period which follows this war the keeping of peace will depend mainly on agreement between the great powers. Thus, France will...
Fifteen ex-Europeans in the U.S. last week raised this warning against Yalta, Dumbarton Oaks, the whole trend of Big Three power-thinking. Their alternative: a European confederation of independent states, linked by a continental Parliament, Cabinet, President and Army...